LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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Choose from these options - • SAIL TO SOUTH AFRICA AND FLY BACK • FLY TO SOUTH AFRICA AND SAIL BACK • SAIL BOTH WAYS NEW - now to LAS PALMAS and TENERIFE in the CANARY ISLANDS Join us on a leisurely...

ON MARCH 4, 1984, the RNLI will celebrate the 160th anniversary of its foundation in 1824. The event in itself is perhaps of minor importance—just another milestone—but what it represents is of far greater significance: the unbroken record...

The Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University, Mr. David Owen, has produced a comprehensive and thoroughly entertaining survey of charity in England and Wales—he has little to say on Scotland or Ireland—in the...

ACCOMMODATION THE OLD HALL HOTEL, RUSWARP, WHITBY. Delightful Jacobean Hall bordering the glorious North Yorkshire Moors and beaches. Ideal for fishing, boating, walking or relaxing. Residential proprietors ensure warm hospitality and good...

Disaster averted at Whitby When two lifeboatmen at Whitby station spotted a small boat heading seawards one afternoon in January 2003, they knew the crew of three were putting their lives at riskHelmsman John Pearson and Mechanic Glenn...

Holyhead, Anglesey-At 7.16 p.m.

on 26th January, 1970, red flares were reported about five miles south west of the South Stack lighthouse.

The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched in a...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.30 on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the honorary secretary was asked by the sergeant in charge of Royal Air Force launch No. 1386 if the life-boat could put himself and his crew on board their launch, which...

MR. W. J. OLIVER is not only one of the most devoted and indefatigable of the Honorary Secretaries who carry out the difficult and responsible task of administering the Station Branches, but he is himself a practical Life-boat man. His skill...